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Hey, this is Jesse Carmichael from Maroon 5.
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Hi, this is Phil Margo of the Tokens.
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Hello, it's Nicole Atkins on the Rock and Roll History Show.
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Hey everybody, welcome back to the Rock and Roll History
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Show on Hudson River Radio. I'm Brian Horowitz. Tonight, we're
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talking cheaters and cheating and all the cheating cheaters that cheat.
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All that kind of good stuff. And I don't know.
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The crambones seem cranky tonight, but you tell me what
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you think. Let's find out. Allow me to introduce them,
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and we'll see where it goes tonight. First and foremost,
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from the Richter Observatory, next week he's going to stop procrastinating.
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Neil Richter is here.
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I put it off for a couple of days, though.
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It's easier. You know... I like to eat Cheetos, though.
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You kind of get the crumbs around, you know. Oh,
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not that kind?
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Not that kind.
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Oh.
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Uh-oh.
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It's all right. You got time.
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Okay. I'll be right back.
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Yeah, wash the orange off your fingers.
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Good luck.
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It gets everywhere. Welcome back. And from Paranormally Yours, she
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says Pavlov had soft hair because he conditioned it. Gail
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Newcomb is here.
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Oh, boy. I like the jalapeno Cheetos.
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By the way.
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I can't do it. I'm a spice wuss. Can't do them.
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What?
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Okay. From the silver screen. She saw an egg walk
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into a bar, pound a few shots, and yell, I'm lit.
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Mercedes Kent is back.
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Do you want to repeat.
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That or explain it?
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Omelette.
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Drunk.
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Omelette. Eggs. Omelette.
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Egg.
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Oh.
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Sometimes it loses something when you have to explain the jokes.
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It really does.
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Well, yeah, except if I don't ask, I'll never know.
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But now you do. And now you can tell that
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joke to somebody else.
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The yoke's on you. The yoke's on you.
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Oh, it's going to be a long night.
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Oh, boy.
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Hey, everybody. And our retired teacher. Sorry about this one.
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He thought the dryer was shrinking his clothes. Turned out
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it was the refrigerator.
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Sorry.
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John Kelly is back.
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Ooh.
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It was just a good joke. I had to give
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it to somebody. No, no, no, no.
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You know, bring it on.
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Bring it on.
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That was good.
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I get it.
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I get it.
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Hey, everybody. How you doing tonight?
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You're on fire tonight.
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And last but not least, the host of Shaving Cream.
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She realized that it's a ripoff when you buy hot
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pockets because you have to add the heat yourself. Barbara
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Veal is here.
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Yeah, that's false advertising.
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Right?
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It should be room temperature pockets.
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Room temperature.
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Or actually cold pockets because they're frozen.
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Yeah, they're in the freezer.
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Yeah. I can't say I've ever bought one.
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That pocket lint, it gets stuck in your teeth.
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It does.
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It does.
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What would you do is you rub your Cheeto in
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it to get that nice crunchy layer?
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You know, I think we've come up with a new product, yeah.
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Pocket Lint Cheetos.
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I do not eat Hot Pockets, so I don't have
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to worry about them burning the roof of my mouth.
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Yeah, I can't say I've ever had one, to the
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best of my recollection.
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You don't know what you're
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Really?
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Really.
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I think they all have meat in them.
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Yeah, pretty much.
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So that would eliminate Brian and I.
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Yeah, unless you eat the breakfast pockets that only have
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egg in them.
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I don't really feel like there's a hole missing in
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my life from not having one.
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Yeah, no, I don't miss them either.
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I think I'll get through the rest of the day
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without a problem. We'll take it from there. All right.
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I don't remember which crambone came up with this topic,
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to be honest with you. Mercedes did. Mercedes did, so
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credit where credit is due. Of course, the next question is,
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why cheating? Is there something that you want to share
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with us?
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No.
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No.
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Uncharacteristically quiet.
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That was an awkward silence there.
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It just seems like such a common topic that.
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That we haven't done it in 10 years, so now
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we have to do it, right? That's how common it is.
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Exactly.
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All right.
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I think we should revisit it every year, but, you know.
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Well, then that means there's a story behind it, and
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we have to know what that is. So I'm fine revisiting,
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but makes you wonder. But I won't put you on
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the spot right now, but you are going to need
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a song.
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About me?
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Me?
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Cheat?
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No.
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Okay.
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No. No.
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Okay.
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It's just like every song that you hear, somebody's cheating it.
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Well, that's kind of true. Can't really argue with that.
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Every TV show, somebody's got to cheat. Every movie, somebody's cheating.
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Where would soap operas be without the cheaters?
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The cheaters and the twins.
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There's like a whole TV show called Cheaters. There's like
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an entire show.
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Okay. I knew a guy, he was an actor on
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a soap opera, and he was like the cad in
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his character. And one time he was in the supermarket
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on the checkout line, and some woman behind him recognized
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him and said, oh, I love your show, and then
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holed off and slapped him in the face. And that's
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what you did to Naomi.
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Oh, my God. Oh, man.
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Dun, dun, dun.
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He was like, what? What?
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A little trouble separating reality there, huh?
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That's mean.
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All right.
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Well, I hope he recovered. But meanwhile, Mercedes, coincidentally, you're
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going to lead us off and it's your topic. So
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why don't you take it away?
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I can't wait.
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All right.
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So as I said, I had way too many songs
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for this topic, which, as I also said, actually makes
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sense because it's a very popular theme. Why is that? Hmm,
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what is wrong with people? I don't know. I wanted
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to do Say My Name by Destiny's Child slash Beyonce
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because I love the concept. And if we revisit the
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topic next year, I probably will. I also wanted to
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do Bust the Windows, a song that I know from
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the TV show Glee, and it was originally recorded by
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Jasmine Sullivan. And I love it because it's a revenge
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song rather than being a victim of being cheated on.
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It's so good.
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Now that's a topic.
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Then I thought, give me three steps, but it's been
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done on the show already, and from there I remembered
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a song with a similar theme to that, and every
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time I remembered the name of the song, I would
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forget it again, and it was driving me crazy, and
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you can ask Neil. I had to call him. Neil,
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I just want you to know, when we did figure
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it out, I immediately forgot.
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Oh, okay.
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So I had to.
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I might have too, but now I remember everything.
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Next time you have a conversation like this, one of
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you immediately text the other with the information.
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That's what I did finally. I texted myself. But yeah,
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you're right.
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I've got a memory like a sieve.
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Likewise.
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That's the glorious results of a misspent youth.
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What's my excuse?
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We don't know, but you can tell us.
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I can't think of anything except... Maybe brain damage from
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the MVA rollover I had in 1997.
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So anyway, it's a song, a story song with a
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very similar plot to Give Me Three Steps. And I'm
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sure you know it, but maybe you haven't heard it
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in a while. I was really happy to find it
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and hear it again. The song is Come a Little
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Bit Closer by Jay and the Americans.
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Oh, yeah.
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From 1964 on the album of the same name. It
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was written by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart and Wes
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Farrell and became Boyce and Hart's first top ten hit. And,
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of course, they went on to write for the Monkees,
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and I think they might have done pretty well with that.
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You know the story. An American guy's in a cafe
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and meets a woman who flirts with him. He responds,
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even though he's been told that her boyfriend is a
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violent outlaw. When Jose, the boyfriend, shows up and the
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man runs, he hears her say the same words to
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Jose that she has been saying to him. The song
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reached number three on the Billboard Top 100, and Jay
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and the Americans also recorded it in Spanish, which I
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thought was pretty cool. I didn't know that. When it
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was released, Bruce Elder from All Music Review said, Called
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the album, quote-unquote, odd for how it collects random singles
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but is not a greatest hits album, characterizing it as
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a slapped-together effort in order to capitalize on the success
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of Come a Little Bit Closer that features good, if
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not exceptional, pop rock. And the problem is?
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I know!
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Aren't all albums, like, unless they're theme albums, have different
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songs put together?
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I thought that was the point. Yeah.
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And if they're all considered to be hits or even
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greatest hits, the better, right? I mean, no skipping tracks.
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Yeah, it just seems like the goal for any group
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that they would want that. Yep.
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So in the early days of the group, they auditioned
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for Lieber and Stoller, a songwriting and record-producing duo, who
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gave the group its name. And I was thinking we
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should do a show on them.
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Oh, they have a ton of stuff, yeah.
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They have a billion songs, yeah. Specifically, Lieber and Stoller
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chose Binky Jones and the Americans.
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Ha ha ha!
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Which the group tweaked to Jay and the Americans.
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It's more than a tweak.
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It's like a complete change. That's more like a hell.
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Songwriting, yes. Titles, no.
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Before releasing Come a Little Closer, the band had released
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a couple of other songs, one being Tonight, which became
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a local hit for them. And then Dawning, which was
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a flop until one radio DJ started playing the B-side.
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She cried. He played it on the air for six
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hours straight.
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And promptly lost his job.
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Well, it reached number five after that. So I don't know.
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I wonder if it was one of those situations where
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he locked himself in the booth and just kept playing it.
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Actually, that sounds like the kind of thing where you
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lock yourself out of the booth. And it just keeps
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going until you get somebody with keys to let you
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back in. My college radio station was like that. The
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door would lock behind you, so you had to think about,
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you know, if you had to run down the hallway
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for a restroom break, that, you know, when you heard
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a seven-minute song, you knew what was going on.
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Sure.
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And you had to make sure the door wasn't going
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to close behind you.
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That would be a problem. It would be.
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I mean, maybe this guy had a girl in the
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booth with him and couldn't be bothered changing records.
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I don't know. He could have had a hot pocket
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and it just didn't go well.
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And it burnt his mouth so he couldn't talk.
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It took a long time to heat it up. I
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can't tell you the story, but I've got a story
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that happened. Not really to me, but yeah, to me.
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And it was a song on repeat for quite a while.
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Oh, is that the one I heard on the, while
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I was driving and I ended up texting you or something?
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Heiress 2.
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Yes! Oh my gosh. One day.
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All right. Quickly, I'll tell the story then. I was
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coming into, I think, I forget what the shift involved.
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I think maybe one of the ball games was coming on.
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I was going to run that. But there was another
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show on before that I wasn't involved in, but I wasn't,
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going to get there I didn't need to get there
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for another hour so I said look just put this
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CD in it was a whole bunch of different songs
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hit play it'll play the songs and when I get
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there I can you know change it and get well
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They didn't hit play all. They played repeat one.
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Repeat track.
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And I'm driving around doing errands and I'm listening to
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this station and, oh, Eres Tu by
Mosedades. I haven't
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heard that song in a long time. And it kept
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playing and replaying and replaying. And finally, I think I
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texted you and went, what's going on? Is everybody okay
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over there?
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I said, I don't know. I'm still at home. I'm
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20 minutes away. And I realized immediately what had happened.
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I was like, and there was nobody else that could
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get there before.
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It is what it is.
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It was so surreal.
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And those are highlights of my stellar radio career. They're
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all going into the book, and the movie rights should follow.
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Good.
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Very soon.
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We want to hear more.
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Oh, no, no, you don't. No, no, no. Okay.
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Okay. Back to Jay and the Americans in 1964. They
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were one of the four opening acts for The Beatles,
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the first live show in the United States since. You know,
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four different opening acts depending on the city. There weren't
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four acts before the Beatles. That would have been a
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really long night. But they were also set for an
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opening act for the Rolling Stones in 1964. But due
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to the wild audience, the Rolling Stones were switched to
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the openers for fear of a riot because Rolling Stones.
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By the end of the first song in Jay and
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the American set, the venue was totally empty. The entire
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audience left after the Rolling Stones played.
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Well, that's a slap in the face, isn't it?
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Yeah, really. Wow.
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Talk about a binky.
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Yeah. So in 1969, they released an album of their
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favorite oldies, which included This Magic Moment, originally recorded by
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the Drifters. It reached number six and stayed on the
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trudge for 14 weeks. So let's listen to Come a
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Little Bit Closer.
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¶ In a little cafe ¶ ¶ Just the other side.
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Of the border ¶.
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¶ He was a-sitting there giving me looks ¶ ¶
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That made my mouth water ¶ So I started walking
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her way She belonged to Batman Jose And I knew,
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yes I knew I should leave When.
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I heard her say Come a little bit closer You're
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my kind of man So big and so strong Come
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a little bit closer I'm all alone And the night
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is so long.
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Just when we started to dance in my arms she
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felt so invited And I just couldn't resist.
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The just a little.
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Kiss so exciting.
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Then the music stopped when I looked, the cafe was empty.
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Then I heard Jose.
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Say, man, you know you're in trouble.
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So I.
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Dropped my drink.
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From my hand.
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Come a little bit.
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Closer You're my kind.
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Of man So big and so strong.
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Come a little bit closer I'm all alone And the night.
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Is so long.
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I love that song. That's a great song. It would
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probably get old if I heard it a lot, but
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I rarely hear it. So I was very happy to
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hear it when I came across it. So does anybody
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know how many J's there were in Jay and the Americans?
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At least three.
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Yeah, there was three. Correct.
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Okay.
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Jay Traynor from 1960 to 1962, who left the band
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because the two of their songs didn't do well.
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Oops.
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Cranky.
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That was before this song came out. Jay Black, who
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was born David Blatt from 1962 to 1973, who was
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allowed to join the band after he agreed to change
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his name to Jay.
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Wouldn't you?
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To Binky? Yeah.
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And then Jay Reinke, who took over when the band
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reunited in 2006. They found an entirely new generation of
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fans after appearing in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
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in 2017. The movie released a movie soundtrack called
Guardians
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of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Awesome Mix Vol. 2, with
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an old-school cover looking like a cassette mixtape. I don't
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know if any of you have seen this movie. It's
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not my kind of movie, but I really liked it,
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and the music was amazing. In an interview with Kenny
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Vance from the band, he said, I wound up doing
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movie work for a long time, for maybe 10 years.
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I did Animal House. I could do period films, and
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then I did The Warriors. Rock on, baby. And I
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was the music director on Saturday Night Live and I
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did Eddie and the Cruisers. Rock on again. HBO just
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went off the air and they had a format where
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they could play movies five times a day and they
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picked Eddie and the Cruisers for heavy rotation for a
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whole month. A year after the movie came out and
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they called me up after the record company said you're
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selling 25,000 albums a day. It became a huge hit
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because of the TV play on HBO. I think that's
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pretty cool. See? Movies, entertainment, music, it all combines.
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It should.
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It should.
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Going to the movies, I haven't been to the movies
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in ages. It's a miserable experience now.
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Who even goes to the movies? I don't know how
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theaters are surviving. I can't remember the last time I
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was in a theater.
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Yeah, like my daughter and her friends would go on
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a more frequent basis, kind of like we used to
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in high school.
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Yeah.
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I don't know.
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That was like 150 years ago.
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Yeah.
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I actually went to the movies last week because they
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were showing like all the original Star Trek films to
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celebrate the 60th anniversary.
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Oh, nice.
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So I got like an enterprise popcorn bucket.
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Yeah.
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So I only went for the merch. I mean, yeah,
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but it was fun.
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I mean, I went and saw, I went and saw Odyssey,
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you know, when it was, I may be still in
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the theaters as we speak, but, uh, I needed to
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see that on a big screen. That makes sense. That
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was one of those epics.
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I think the last movie I saw was the second
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Spinal Tap when that came out. And that's over a
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year ago at this point.
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Right, right.
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That was a while ago. Nothing else has appealed, really.
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It's like, eh. Barbara, I have to ask. When you
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walk around your house, when you go through a door,
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do you go and walk through and then go and
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close the door behind you?
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No, I have an intern doing that for me.
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Okay. Just curious.
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Okay.
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You know the Star Trek noise?
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We know.
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Mercedes is just looking at me with that blank stare.
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You know when Kirk walked through a door and the
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door would open and it would go, I was wondering
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if Barbara did that for herself, walking through a door.
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Well, honestly, my text message tone on my phone is
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the communicator sound.
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That's awesome.
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And when you turn on the microwave, it goes, working.
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Actually, right, I know you guys can't see it, but
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like on my microphone, I have a sticker of Lieutenant
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Uhura and it says hailing frequencies open on it.
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Nice. So one more question about my son. Who's the cheater?
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The girl.
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All of them.
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Not Jose.
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No.
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No way, Jose.
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He's not the cheater. What about Jose? Okay.
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No, it would have to be her. What was her
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name again?
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There was no name.
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Oh, okay.
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She is unnamed.
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Well, she who shall remain unnamed. Because the guy, the singer,
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the protagonist, he didn't know. He was like, oh, look
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at me.
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I did, though. They did tell him.
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Well, yeah, but not at first.
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Yeah, true.
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Yeah. But he was so entranced with her that he.
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True. Well, if you had said, yeah, her boyfriend is
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kind of like a killer, I'd be like, well, would
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you look at the time?
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Nice meeting you.
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Bye-bye.
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I think it was her.
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I do.
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I think the blame goes to her. She knew exactly
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what she was doing.
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I blame Jay and the binkies, the binky combs.
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I wonder if Jose broke up with her after that.
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I would love to hear the rest of that story.
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Part two of the sequel.
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Run a little bit faster. All right. I do love
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that one. I saw the second Jay, a.k.a. David, a
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bunch of times perform. He really put on a good show.
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He would tell good jokes and all that. I did see,
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you know, we saw an older couple. A couple of
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jokes in, the older couple looked at each other and
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got up and walked out. They were just on the
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border of, you know.
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Wow.
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I don't want to say distasteful, but I could see,
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you know.
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I went to a movie like 20, oh my God,
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it was 27 years ago now. And my brother and
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I went to the theater in Portland, Oregon, when the
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South Park movie came out in theaters. And we went
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to the theater to see it when he was living
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out in Oregon and And I just remember about 15
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minutes in, these two older ladies get up and don't
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just get up and leave. They get up and storm out.
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And I'm thinking to myself, why? Why did you even
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show up?
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Exactly.
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What were you thinking?
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Oh, my goodness.
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My
father walked out of Monty Python Lake, the Holy Grail.
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Oh, my gosh.
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He took me to see it and left me there.
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I guess because.
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It was too vulgar for him. They showed a lot
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of things that they couldn't show on the TV show
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on Flying Circus. And he was having none of it.
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He got to have been walked out. And I waited
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a minute and I was like, what do I do?
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That's my ride.
518
00:25:44.329 --> 00:25:46.890
You should have heard some of the jokes that Davy
519
00:25:46.950 --> 00:25:48.529
Jones was telling when I saw it.
520
00:25:48.549 --> 00:25:49.150
Really?
521
00:25:49.470 --> 00:25:51.410
I was very surprised. And I have to tell you,
522
00:25:51.549 --> 00:25:53.839
I was like a little bit upset about it. Not
523
00:25:53.880 --> 00:25:56.720
that he didn't have any right to. you know, every
524
00:25:56.779 --> 00:25:59.200
right to be able to talk like that, but he's,
525
00:25:59.220 --> 00:26:03.680
you know, he's a grown ass man, but, or he was, but,
526
00:26:04.720 --> 00:26:08.099
you know, I think of him as the cute little
527
00:26:08.380 --> 00:26:17.230
monkey boy. And he was so cute and innocent. And
528
00:26:17.549 --> 00:26:19.450
I don't know, it was just, that was how you
529
00:26:19.490 --> 00:26:21.089
thought of him. And then he got up and he
530
00:26:21.150 --> 00:26:24.349
was telling all these racy jokes about, you know, being,
531
00:26:26.259 --> 00:26:29.819
sex and being old and stuff and I was like no.
532
00:26:30.470 --> 00:26:34.029
And then he got up and sang daydream believer yeah
533
00:26:34.589 --> 00:26:38.490
doesn't really fit.
534
00:26:37.670 --> 00:26:42.690
So wrong yeah I mean it was still a great
535
00:26:42.750 --> 00:26:44.970
show don't get me wrong I still love David Jones
536
00:26:45.009 --> 00:26:49.380
but yeah had I been the manager we would have
537
00:26:49.420 --> 00:26:50.160
had a talk.
538
00:26:49.940 --> 00:26:54.019
Laughing Fair enough.
539
00:26:54.299 --> 00:26:54.640
All right.
540
00:26:54.720 --> 00:26:57.890
Good lead off. That is a great song. When it
541
00:26:57.930 --> 00:27:00.849
comes around, definitely turn that one up. I like Jay
542
00:27:00.869 --> 00:27:03.029
and the Americans. Good one.
543
00:27:03.210 --> 00:27:03.569
All right.
544
00:27:03.930 --> 00:27:04.980
Gail, you are up.
545
00:27:06.190 --> 00:27:11.589
Okay. The first song I thought of when we chose
546
00:27:11.630 --> 00:27:16.730
this topic is called Bring Me Some Water from Melissa
547
00:27:16.809 --> 00:27:26.329
Etheridge's first album, which was called, oddly enough, Melissa Etheridge. Logical?
548
00:27:26.430 --> 00:27:26.789
Yeah.
549
00:27:27.150 --> 00:27:27.829
Not Pinky?
550
00:27:28.630 --> 00:27:29.309
No, no.
551
00:27:29.329 --> 00:27:29.869
It was taken.
552
00:27:29.890 --> 00:27:32.069
Pinky Etheridge.
553
00:27:32.230 --> 00:27:38.519
Yeah, it was copyrighted. It's very bluesy. You know me.
554
00:27:38.650 --> 00:27:40.039
I like bluesy things.
555
00:27:41.680 --> 00:27:42.759
I love her music.
556
00:27:42.920 --> 00:27:49.740
Yeah, me too. Me too. And she was born May 29th, 1969.
557
00:27:50.569 --> 00:27:57.309
one in Leavenworth, Kansas. And she wrote this song after
558
00:27:57.329 --> 00:28:03.289
the initial version of her debut album was rejected by
559
00:28:03.349 --> 00:28:08.369
the recording company. They thought it was too polished and polished.
560
00:28:08.650 --> 00:28:09.049
Yes.
561
00:28:09.589 --> 00:28:13.809
Uh, it was Island records. I don't know. Um, uh,
562
00:28:14.380 --> 00:28:17.720
And it left her only four days to provide new
563
00:28:17.799 --> 00:28:22.720
material and a modified edition of the album. I'm surprised she, well,
564
00:28:22.769 --> 00:28:24.130
maybe she was freaking out.
565
00:28:24.269 --> 00:28:24.690
I don't know.
566
00:28:26.650 --> 00:28:31.049
The album was released in 1988 and it became an
567
00:28:31.210 --> 00:28:34.950
underground success. Now, I at first did not realize that
568
00:28:34.990 --> 00:28:38.259
this song was from her first album. I think I
569
00:28:38.930 --> 00:28:41.319
heard it years later and just went, oh my God,
570
00:28:41.359 --> 00:28:50.150
what song is that? That's great. It became an underground success.
571
00:28:50.259 --> 00:28:55.299
It peaked at number 22 on the Billboard 200, and
572
00:28:55.660 --> 00:29:00.440
Bring Me Some Water was the lead single. And it
573
00:29:00.579 --> 00:29:04.740
got her her first Grammy Award nomination for Best Rock
574
00:29:05.220 --> 00:29:12.150
Vocal Performance Female in 1989. It was released as her
575
00:29:12.349 --> 00:29:16.819
debut single and became a hit in several countries, reaching
576
00:29:16.859 --> 00:29:21.180
the top 20 in Australia, New Zealand, and on the U.S.
577
00:29:21.259 --> 00:29:28.700
Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart. And I so seldom find
578
00:29:29.380 --> 00:29:34.089
actual what inspired the song when we're picking a topic
579
00:29:34.509 --> 00:29:39.869
and picking songs for this. And she was living in
580
00:29:40.390 --> 00:29:45.680
LA at the time, and she had a long-distance relationship
581
00:29:45.759 --> 00:29:52.200
with her then-girlfriend Kathleen. So she had reluctantly agreed to
582
00:29:52.240 --> 00:29:59.480
make their relationship non-monogamous, and I guess she had awful
583
00:29:59.559 --> 00:30:05.480
thoughts about that afterwards because the song tells about the
584
00:30:05.539 --> 00:30:08.779
pain and jealousy from thoughts of her girlfriend being with
585
00:30:08.819 --> 00:30:13.660
someone else. Other songs on the album also reflect this.
586
00:30:14.589 --> 00:30:17.950
So let's have a listen and then
we'll talk a
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00:30:17.990 --> 00:30:18.630
little more.
588
00:30:20.710 --> 00:30:22.490
Tonight I feel so weak.
589
00:30:29.740 --> 00:30:31.660
But all in love is fair.
590
00:30:33.670 --> 00:30:34.730
I turn you the cheek.
591
00:30:35.869 --> 00:30:38.289
And I feel the slap and the sting of the
592
00:30:38.589 --> 00:30:44.230
foul night air. And I know you're only human. And
593
00:30:44.329 --> 00:30:50.910
I haven't got talking room. But tonight while I'm making excuses.
594
00:30:52.319 --> 00:30:55.220
Some other woman is making love to you.
595
00:30:58.269 --> 00:31:07.930
Can't you see.
596
00:31:05.680 --> 00:31:12.839
It's out of control?
597
00:31:18.880 --> 00:31:21.440
Baby's got my heart, and my baby's.
598
00:31:21.160 --> 00:31:22.440
Got my mind.
599
00:31:22.480 --> 00:31:25.609
Tonight the sweet.
600
00:31:25.589 --> 00:31:32.579
Devil, the sweet devil's got my soul.
601
00:31:32.619 --> 00:31:36.440
Walking with a stinking past.
602
00:31:38.799 --> 00:31:44.720
Will this night be through? Wanna hear the breaking.
603
00:31:43.779 --> 00:31:48.980
Glass I only feel the steel of the red-hot.
604
00:31:48.299 --> 00:31:51.829
Truth And I'd do anything.
605
00:31:51.049 --> 00:31:53.450
To get it out of my mind I need some
606
00:31:53.490 --> 00:31:58.730
insanity for that temporary kind Tell me how will I.
607
00:31:58.670 --> 00:31:59.869
Ever be the.
608
00:31:59.690 --> 00:32:03.740
Same When I know that that woman is whispering your name.
609
00:32:03.660 --> 00:32:10.609
Somebody bring me some water Can't you see I'm burning alive?
610
00:32:12.109 --> 00:32:14.670
Can't you see my.
611
00:32:14.630 --> 00:32:15.529
Baby's got another lover?
612
00:32:15.910 --> 00:32:20.910
And I don't know how I'm gonna survive. Somebody bring
613
00:32:21.029 --> 00:32:25.740
me some water. Can't you see it's out of control?
614
00:32:27.579 --> 00:32:29.079
Baby's got my heart.
615
00:32:29.180 --> 00:32:31.400
And my baby's got my mind.
616
00:32:31.980 --> 00:32:32.799
It's not the sweetest thing ever.
617
00:32:40.920 --> 00:32:47.900
Got my soul Somebody bring me some water.
618
00:32:46.779 --> 00:32:50.150
Can't you see I'm burning like a.
619
00:33:22.690 --> 00:33:29.460
My baby's got my heart, my baby's got my mind, it's.
620
00:33:27.680 --> 00:33:28.539
Like a sweet devil.
621
00:33:28.559 --> 00:33:30.180
Sweet devil's got my soul.
622
00:33:30.200 --> 00:33:34.660
My baby's got my heart, my baby's.
623
00:33:36.799 --> 00:33:46.930
Got my mind, it's like a sweet devil.
624
00:33:56.339 --> 00:33:58.359
That's one of those songs that makes me want to
625
00:33:58.400 --> 00:34:02.660
drive fast and turn the volume up.
626
00:34:04.619 --> 00:34:08.800
So wait a minute. That was like the unpolished version?
627
00:34:08.820 --> 00:34:13.139
That sounded pretty polished to me.
628
00:34:13.550 --> 00:34:16.449
No, she had to come up with like new songs.
629
00:34:18.710 --> 00:34:21.570
Oh, okay. Because I was going to like, there's nothing
630
00:34:21.610 --> 00:34:24.650
wrong with that. That sounded great. It rocked. Yeah, yeah.
631
00:34:25.179 --> 00:34:28.840
But it was not unpolished. I mean, unpolished would be
632
00:34:28.880 --> 00:34:35.650
like sitting in a cheap motel with a reel-to-reel recorder
633
00:34:35.670 --> 00:34:36.730
with one microphone.
634
00:34:36.909 --> 00:34:37.809
Right, right.
635
00:34:38.570 --> 00:34:39.670
That's unpolished.
636
00:34:40.090 --> 00:34:40.429
Yeah.
637
00:34:41.650 --> 00:34:42.190
Okay, but.
638
00:34:42.210 --> 00:34:46.210
No, I guess they didn't like whatever songs she had
639
00:34:46.389 --> 00:34:52.039
previously submitted as the album, and so I guess she
640
00:34:52.139 --> 00:34:54.079
came up with gutsier stuff. I don't know.
641
00:34:55.880 --> 00:34:57.840
Okay, yeah, I was just going to say that didn't
642
00:34:57.880 --> 00:35:01.440
sound unpolished to me. If they didn't like the other material,
643
00:35:01.480 --> 00:35:02.659
that's a whole other story.
644
00:35:02.679 --> 00:35:08.880
Yeah, yeah. But she's received various accolades and honors throughout
645
00:35:08.940 --> 00:35:13.699
her career, and among her competitive awards, she has won
646
00:35:13.920 --> 00:35:20.050
two Grammy Awards from 15 nominations, an Academy Award, and
647
00:35:20.070 --> 00:35:26.380
a Juno Award. And among her honorary accolades, she has
648
00:35:26.460 --> 00:35:31.989
received the ASCAP Founders Award, an honorary Doctor of Music
649
00:35:32.050 --> 00:35:35.909
degree from Berklee College of Music, and a star on
650
00:35:35.949 --> 00:35:38.929
the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
651
00:35:39.130 --> 00:35:39.630
Nice.
652
00:35:40.110 --> 00:35:40.530
Yes.
653
00:35:41.329 --> 00:35:46.010
She ranked number 49 on VH1' s list of 100 Greatest
654
00:35:46.110 --> 00:35:51.780
Women in Rock and Roll in 1999. And sometime this
655
00:35:51.880 --> 00:35:56.480
year in 2026, she was nominated for the rock and
656
00:35:56.500 --> 00:35:57.380
roll hall of fame.
657
00:36:00.019 --> 00:36:01.440
Pretty good for being unpolished.
658
00:36:05.889 --> 00:36:10.469
She, she's done something like 19 albums or something.
659
00:36:10.530 --> 00:36:14.159
It's, it's, amazing yeah she's been around like i didn't
660
00:36:14.179 --> 00:36:16.360
realize she was around in the late 80s i would
661
00:36:16.380 --> 00:36:17.539
have said like 90s.
662
00:36:17.619 --> 00:36:20.440
Ish right yeah yeah but.
663
00:36:20.320 --> 00:36:24.059
Yeah she's been around a while so yeah that was
664
00:36:24.099 --> 00:36:25.380
a good i haven't heard that one that was a
665
00:36:25.400 --> 00:36:25.860
good one i.
666
00:36:25.840 --> 00:36:30.159
Like oh the early one i like that yeah all
667
00:36:30.199 --> 00:36:33.010
right excellent gutsy and bluesy and makes you want to
668
00:36:34.010 --> 00:36:36.949
turn it up to 11 and drive very quickly.
669
00:36:38.679 --> 00:36:39.039
All right.
670
00:36:39.059 --> 00:36:40.940
Thank you, Gail. We are going to take our first
671
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real quick break, and we've got lots more, so stick around.
672
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We'll be right back. HudsonRiverRadio.com.
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It beats listening to nothing.
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This concludes the first part of this cassette.
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Please turn the cassette over and begin again on side two.
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HudsonRiverRadio.com.
677
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All right.
678
00:37:01.860 --> 00:37:04.400
Welcome back. Neil, your turn to cheat.
679
00:37:05.599 --> 00:37:10.000
Oh, all right. Well, the song I picked for our
680
00:37:10.099 --> 00:37:15.940
topic of infidelity today is a song called Cha-Cha-Cherie by
681
00:37:15.980 --> 00:37:19.550
the Johnny Average Band. And no, I wasn't stuttering, and no,
682
00:37:19.610 --> 00:37:25.949
your connection is fine. It's Cha-Cha-Cherie. And I'll be honest,
683
00:37:26.030 --> 00:37:29.650
I couldn't find too much information about these guys, but
684
00:37:29.969 --> 00:37:34.679
I really like this track, so here goes. The Johnny
685
00:37:34.800 --> 00:37:39.159
Average Band was a short-lived male-female English pop rock duo
686
00:37:39.389 --> 00:37:45.510
whose members were Mick Hodgkinson, a.k.a. Johnny Average, and Nicky Wills,
687
00:37:46.030 --> 00:37:50.869
and they were active in the early 1980s. They're best
688
00:37:50.929 --> 00:37:54.960
known here in the United States for their upbeat 1981 single,
689
00:37:55.059 --> 00:37:59.800
the song we're about to hear, Ch-Ch-Churri. And see, I
690
00:37:59.920 --> 00:38:01.070
did like some stuff from the 80s.
691
00:38:03.530 --> 00:38:04.630
Not much, though.
692
00:38:04.750 --> 00:38:11.199
No, well, you know, I'm very discretionary or whatever in
693
00:38:11.239 --> 00:38:15.260
a topic of indiscretion. Anyway, Cherie is a French term.
694
00:38:15.559 --> 00:38:19.980
It's a French term of endearment. And it means like darling, dear,
695
00:38:20.059 --> 00:38:24.820
or beloved. And it's usually used to address a female. Now,
696
00:38:24.969 --> 00:38:28.670
the song was written and produced by both Mick Hodgkinson,
697
00:38:29.090 --> 00:38:34.010
Johnny Average, and Griff McCree. So it's sort of interesting
698
00:38:34.050 --> 00:38:37.170
that a song written by two men is being sung
699
00:38:38.090 --> 00:38:42.889
by a woman, as we shall hear. Now in the song,
700
00:38:42.969 --> 00:38:47.730
the singer suspects her partner of indiscretions and confronts him
701
00:38:47.789 --> 00:38:52.090
about it. And then she turns the tables and admits
702
00:38:52.789 --> 00:38:57.070
the reason why she's wise to him is because she's
703
00:38:57.139 --> 00:38:59.719
the one who taught him the art of deception in
704
00:38:59.760 --> 00:39:06.019
the first place. Like this, the lyrics. Lying, cheating, deceiving.
705
00:39:06.900 --> 00:39:11.300
What do you think you're doing to me? Ch-ch-churry. Misbehaving
706
00:39:11.320 --> 00:39:14.170
and fooling around. I hear your name all over town.
707
00:39:14.550 --> 00:39:18.769
You can't fool me. Ch-ch-churry. I'm the one who taught
708
00:39:18.789 --> 00:39:22.630
you all your lies. Did you really think they'd work
709
00:39:22.670 --> 00:39:28.289
this time? Not on me. Ch-ch-ch-ree. So let's check it out.
710
00:39:29.289 --> 00:39:37.289
¶ ¶ ¶ ¶ ¶ ¶ ¶ ¶.
711
00:39:50.820 --> 00:39:58.570
Choo-choo-choo-ree Misbehavin' and foolin' around I hear your name all
712
00:39:58.650 --> 00:40:04.409
over town You can't fool me Choo-choo-choo-ree You don't fool
713
00:40:04.489 --> 00:40:10.800
me Choo-choo-choo-ree I'm the one who taught you all your
714
00:40:10.860 --> 00:40:23.039
lines Did you think they'd really work.
715
00:40:28.840 --> 00:40:29.639
This time?
716
00:40:30.719 --> 00:40:39.260
Not on me.
717
00:40:39.159 --> 00:40:47.590
Choo-choo-choo-ree Not on me Choo-choo-choo-ree guitar solo.
718
00:40:58.329 --> 00:41:00.019
The one who taught.
719
00:40:59.719 --> 00:41:02.280
You all your lines Did you think they'd really work
720
00:41:02.320 --> 00:41:06.199
this time? Not on me Ch-ch-ch-ree Not on me Ch-ch-ch-ree.
721
00:41:55.550 --> 00:41:57.650
Yeah, we were commenting while the song was on, a
722
00:41:57.730 --> 00:42:00.329
couple of you were saying it sounds a lot like Blondie,
723
00:42:00.389 --> 00:42:04.809
and I totally agree. And they were hot on the charts,
724
00:42:05.050 --> 00:42:08.230
Blondie was at that time. So, hey, if you're going
725
00:42:08.250 --> 00:42:13.429
to copy someone, you might as well copy from the best. So, yeah,
726
00:42:13.610 --> 00:42:16.480
it does have a very Blondie-esque sound to it, the
727
00:42:17.579 --> 00:42:21.429
singing and the instrumental. Now, the single was released on
728
00:42:21.469 --> 00:42:24.630
the Bearsville label, which was responsible for most of the
729
00:42:24.670 --> 00:42:29.360
band's recorded output. That included a mix of singles, one LP,
730
00:42:29.440 --> 00:42:34.500
I believe, and some compilations. Now, the singles were distributed
731
00:42:34.559 --> 00:42:40.590
internationally by Bearsville and were manufactured in multiple countries, so
732
00:42:41.610 --> 00:42:43.590
there's a whole lot of different ones out there that
733
00:42:43.730 --> 00:42:48.949
make them collectible for vinyl enthusiasts, so... If you happen
734
00:42:48.989 --> 00:42:51.610
to have a copy, I guess... Well, actually, I do
735
00:42:51.650 --> 00:42:54.389
have a copy of the 45 somewhere tucked away, and
736
00:42:54.429 --> 00:42:58.150
I have no idea of the value or collectability. I'm
737
00:42:58.230 --> 00:43:02.010
sure it was made right here in the good old U.S.A.,
738
00:43:02.110 --> 00:43:06.389
and besides which, it's not for sale anyway. Sorry. It's
739
00:43:06.789 --> 00:43:07.309
all mine.
740
00:43:07.630 --> 00:43:08.469
Too sentimental.
741
00:43:09.469 --> 00:43:12.630
That's right. Well, anyway, as I said, I really dig
742
00:43:12.650 --> 00:43:15.010
this song, and I hope you did too. So now,
743
00:43:15.949 --> 00:43:18.070
get out there and go to a concert. Thank you.
744
00:43:18.579 --> 00:43:21.420
Neil, you digging an 80s song. That's like a first.
745
00:43:21.440 --> 00:43:21.639
I think.
746
00:43:21.900 --> 00:43:24.889
I know, right? I know. Don't let it get around.
747
00:43:25.289 --> 00:43:27.289
I've got a reputation to uphold here.
748
00:43:27.909 --> 00:43:30.989
Every once in a while, there's that one exception.
749
00:43:32.949 --> 00:43:35.909
There are... No, I listened to a lot of music
750
00:43:36.590 --> 00:43:41.179
in the 80s. I mean, obviously. But it wasn't all
751
00:43:41.739 --> 00:43:45.559
mainstream and top 40 or any of that either. Right.
752
00:43:46.340 --> 00:43:46.559
I was.
753
00:43:48.449 --> 00:43:52.750
Dwelling in the underground, shall we say. And I think
754
00:43:52.769 --> 00:43:56.670
I've always been there, but that's the way I roll.
755
00:43:56.909 --> 00:43:59.269
That's where good stuff comes from. So you need people there.
756
00:44:00.110 --> 00:44:01.449
Yeah.
757
00:44:01.570 --> 00:44:03.219
That's what I say. All right.
758
00:44:03.280 --> 00:44:06.059
Thanks, Neil. Barbara, your turn.
759
00:44:06.960 --> 00:44:07.239
Okay.
760
00:44:07.280 --> 00:44:12.159
Well, we all had some very cool song choices up
761
00:44:12.239 --> 00:44:12.760
until now.
762
00:44:12.780 --> 00:44:16.590
Yeah. Go, Barbara.
763
00:44:19.550 --> 00:44:22.139
I basically picked this one because I liked the song,
764
00:44:22.199 --> 00:44:26.340
but the performer was so out there, it just blew
765
00:44:26.360 --> 00:44:30.300
me away. I'd like to begin by imparting a brief
766
00:44:30.360 --> 00:44:37.400
history lesson regarding Czechoslovakia. Czechoslovakia was a single country that
767
00:44:37.460 --> 00:44:40.510
existed in Central Europe for most of the 20th century,
768
00:44:41.119 --> 00:44:46.920
having been created in 1918. It peacefully split into two
769
00:44:47.099 --> 00:44:53.179
independent countries on January 1st, 1993, in an event known
770
00:44:53.360 --> 00:44:55.340
as the Velvet Divorce.
771
00:44:56.360 --> 00:44:56.539
Oh.
772
00:44:57.579 --> 00:45:01.380
The two independent countries it split into are the Czech
773
00:45:01.420 --> 00:45:06.940
Republic and Slovakia. That being said, I would like to
774
00:45:07.099 --> 00:45:12.000
now tell you about the father of Slovak jazz.
775
00:45:12.539 --> 00:45:12.900
Woo-hoo!
776
00:45:13.880 --> 00:45:16.760
His name is Peter Lipa, and he was born on
777
00:45:16.800 --> 00:45:24.659
May 30th, 1943 to Hungarian Jewish parents. He has performed soul, blues, classical, rock,
778
00:45:25.000 --> 00:45:30.570
and jazz standards. In 2003, he released an album called
779
00:45:30.789 --> 00:45:37.869
Beatles in Blues, which included
16 Beatles songs. So let's
780
00:45:37.969 --> 00:45:42.250
listen to his rendition of No Reply, my favorite cheating song.
781
00:45:43.030 --> 00:45:46.889
which was originally included on the 1964 album Beatles for Sale.
782
00:45:46.909 --> 00:45:47.750
Let's hear it.
783
00:45:47.829 --> 00:45:50.420
This happened once before.
784
00:45:50.050 --> 00:45:54.079
When I came to your door No reply.
785
00:46:09.969 --> 00:46:13.250
They said it wasn't you, but I saw you peek
786
00:46:13.289 --> 00:46:16.969
through your window.
787
00:46:17.130 --> 00:46:20.269
I saw the light.
788
00:46:21.329 --> 00:46:25.530
I saw the light.
789
00:46:25.730 --> 00:46:28.510
I know that you saw me because I looked up
790
00:46:28.570 --> 00:46:34.199
to see your face. I tried to telephone.
791
00:46:34.429 --> 00:46:36.159
They said you were not home.
792
00:46:36.440 --> 00:46:37.139
That's a lie.
793
00:46:41.369 --> 00:46:44.530
Cause I know where you'll be. I saw you walk in.
794
00:46:45.030 --> 00:46:57.539
You're done. I nearly died. I nearly died. Cause you
795
00:46:57.599 --> 00:47:01.500
walked hand in hand with another man in my place.
796
00:47:35.880 --> 00:47:41.420
If I were you, I'd realize.
797
00:47:40.280 --> 00:47:51.690
That I love you more than any other guy. And
798
00:47:51.809 --> 00:48:01.250
I'll forgive the lies that.
799
00:47:59.199 --> 00:48:02.960
I heard before when you gave me nothing.
800
00:48:07.670 --> 00:48:09.070
By the telephone.
801
00:48:09.570 --> 00:48:15.429
They say you were not home and that's lying.
802
00:48:15.489 --> 00:48:17.449
Cause I know where you've been.
803
00:48:17.610 --> 00:48:22.130
I saw you walk in your door.
804
00:48:22.869 --> 00:48:27.070
I nearly died.
805
00:48:27.489 --> 00:48:31.219
I nearly died.
806
00:48:31.300 --> 00:48:35.400
Cause you walk hand in hand with another man.
807
00:48:35.059 --> 00:48:35.619
In my.
808
00:48:47.949 --> 00:48:50.949
Well, all right, so.
809
00:48:50.750 --> 00:49:02.460
After I listened to this song and said.
810
00:49:15.039 --> 00:49:16.840
This is just out there enough for me to pick
811
00:49:16.880 --> 00:49:19.929
this one. I went and did some research on this.
812
00:49:19.989 --> 00:49:24.590
song and I found the following explanation. that Lipa and
813
00:49:24.650 --> 00:49:27.989
his musicians had set out to create the most unusual
814
00:49:28.050 --> 00:49:30.280
renditions of the Beatles music that they could think of.
815
00:49:30.380 --> 00:49:33.519
There you go. That's why it sounds like that.
816
00:49:33.739 --> 00:49:35.260
They certainly succeeded.
817
00:49:35.280 --> 00:49:37.650
Yes, in that respect, they get A +.
818
00:49:38.340 --> 00:49:38.900
That's why it.
819
00:49:38.860 --> 00:49:39.519
Sounds like that.
820
00:49:39.639 --> 00:49:43.289
So they are recorded so differently from the originals that
821
00:49:43.329 --> 00:49:47.489
the only common thing that remains are the lyrics. Three
822
00:49:48.070 --> 00:49:51.860
of Lipa's studio albums have been included among the 100
823
00:49:51.860 --> 00:49:54.579
greatest Slovak albums of all time.
824
00:49:54.599 --> 00:49:56.219
I don't know if that's a compliment.
825
00:49:56.280 --> 00:50:00.219
Have there even been a hundred? Have there even been
826
00:50:00.260 --> 00:50:00.639
a hundred?
827
00:50:01.380 --> 00:50:04.059
I'm thinking their bar is more of a limbo bar.
828
00:50:04.079 --> 00:50:10.500
Every little factoid I read on this was just like, okay,
829
00:50:10.559 --> 00:50:15.320
I'm writing it down. I'm like laughing. 100 Greatest Slovak
830
00:50:15.659 --> 00:50:18.960
Albums of All Times, but Beatles and Blues was not
831
00:50:19.059 --> 00:50:23.280
one of them. Lipa is the first jazz singer to
832
00:50:23.340 --> 00:50:27.489
record in Slovak, and most of his albums are in Slovak.
833
00:50:28.530 --> 00:50:28.780
Good.
834
00:50:28.800 --> 00:50:33.849
I did try to visit the website, PeterLipa.com, but bam,
835
00:50:33.869 --> 00:50:37.489
that was in Slovak, too. There was a tab to
836
00:50:37.530 --> 00:50:39.989
choose English, so I said, okay, what the heck, and
837
00:50:40.070 --> 00:50:43.880
I clicked on it, and then... I found links to
838
00:50:43.920 --> 00:50:47.880
purchase albums and concert tickets. So the guy's still going
839
00:50:47.900 --> 00:50:51.070
strong and doing live music and everything. Good for him.
840
00:50:52.940 --> 00:50:55.340
So I knew I wanted to talk about the song,
841
00:50:55.360 --> 00:50:58.619
No Reply, but since the Beatles are kind of low-hanging fruit,
842
00:50:58.739 --> 00:51:03.070
what I did was I went to the website whosampled.com
843
00:51:03.510 --> 00:51:05.710
to see if I could find an unusual cover. There
844
00:51:05.789 --> 00:51:06.809
are a couple out there.
845
00:51:06.829 --> 00:51:06.900
Hmm.
846
00:51:08.289 --> 00:51:10.349
You know, there was one guy with a German accent
847
00:51:10.369 --> 00:51:13.650
that was hilarious. And yeah, some really, really, and some
848
00:51:13.690 --> 00:51:18.300
really good covers. This one was the most interesting one.
849
00:51:18.159 --> 00:51:19.380
I could find.
850
00:51:19.719 --> 00:51:21.550
That's a polite way to put it.
851
00:51:21.579 --> 00:51:26.340
Was that a Czechoslovakian accent? It sounded to me like
852
00:51:27.980 --> 00:51:30.630
Axl Rose singing a bossa nova from the early 60s.
853
00:51:34.119 --> 00:51:37.719
Like the girl from Ipanema by Axl Rose.
854
00:51:37.739 --> 00:51:40.119
You know, some things are too good to be true.
855
00:51:40.159 --> 00:51:44.019
This was like too bad to be true. And as
856
00:51:44.059 --> 00:51:47.139
soon as I heard this guy sing, I knew this
857
00:51:47.219 --> 00:51:50.739
was it. And it immediately had me rethinking my life's choices.
858
00:51:50.800 --> 00:51:51.909
So I knew I had to pick it.
859
00:51:52.739 --> 00:51:55.750
My concern is that you said he's the father of
860
00:51:55.809 -->
00:51:57.210
Slovak jazz.
861
00:51:58.130 --> 00:51:58.610
That means.
862
00:51:59.500 --> 00:52:02.380
The next generation's not going to be as good. And
863
00:52:04.940 --> 00:52:06.650
I'm trying to, I don't know how else to say
864
00:52:06.690 --> 00:52:07.250
it politely.
865
00:52:08.150 --> 00:52:10.650
I didn't know there was such a thing as Slovak
866
00:52:10.750 --> 00:52:12.650
jazz to begin with.
867
00:52:12.849 --> 00:52:13.909
Neither did I.
868
00:52:14.090 --> 00:52:14.829
It's just this guy.
869
00:52:15.380 --> 00:52:16.409
I'm here to educate.
870
00:52:17.320 --> 00:52:18.360
I'm here to educate.
871
00:52:18.590 --> 00:52:20.980
That's what I'm imparting to you. Now you know all
872
00:52:21.019 --> 00:52:23.260
about the father of Slovak jazz. You know a little
873
00:52:23.280 --> 00:52:24.059
bit of history.
874
00:52:24.119 --> 00:52:25.619
Maybe it wasn't the top 100 albums.
875
00:52:25.659 --> 00:52:26.320
Maybe it was the 100 albums.
876
00:52:26.340 --> 00:52:26.900
That's all they had.
877
00:52:32.929 --> 00:52:35.940
Right, that's what I was saying. He had the number
878
00:52:35.940 --> 00:52:38.760
100 album of a list of like 75. Yeah.
879
00:52:42.039 --> 00:52:45.460
Well, there are your facts about Peter Alipa and a
880
00:52:45.980 --> 00:52:49.039
little history of the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
881
00:52:49.880 --> 00:52:52.239
You can always count on Barbara.
882
00:52:52.760 --> 00:52:54.840
Yeah, and I think we're going to get some Slovak
883
00:52:54.860 --> 00:52:56.480
hate mail.
884
00:52:58.099 --> 00:53:02.369
But if it's in Slovak, we won't. be able to
885
00:53:02.469 --> 00:53:06.070
understand it that's true fair enough.
886
00:53:08.449 --> 00:53:09.110
All right.
887
00:53:10.739 --> 00:53:14.360
I have no follow-up for that you threw a curveball
888
00:53:14.400 --> 00:53:17.159
that was a good one but uh i definitely think
889
00:53:17.199 --> 00:53:20.699
we need a break after that so we're gonna take
890
00:53:20.820 --> 00:53:36.219
one and we'll be right back hudsonriverradio.com HudsonRiverRadio.com Alright, you
891
00:53:36.260 --> 00:53:40.940
all had time to add Peter Lipa to your Spotify playlist.
892
00:53:40.960 --> 00:53:43.099
I was about to take a Lipa off of a
893
00:53:44.380 --> 00:53:45.719
tall building.
894
00:53:45.760 --> 00:53:47.610
That's on my Slovak playlist.
895
00:53:48.409 --> 00:53:53.750
There you go. How many songs? All 100?
896
00:53:53.750 --> 00:53:57.369
All 100, babe. Everything off of the Beatles and Blues.
897
00:53:58.190 --> 00:54:01.010
Of all the songs, why that one? Well, I mean,
898
00:54:01.449 --> 00:54:03.179
I know why you picked it for the topic, but.
899
00:54:03.760 --> 00:54:04.739
Well, he's got.
900
00:54:04.559 --> 00:54:07.760
16 Beatles songs on his Beatles and Blues album, and yes,
901
00:54:07.800 --> 00:54:10.139
I listened to, like, all of them. They were all
902
00:54:10.480 --> 00:54:12.599
pretty much on par with this one, but this one
903
00:54:12.619 --> 00:54:13.420
fit the topic.
904
00:54:13.519 --> 00:54:14.980
You are a brave woman.
905
00:54:16.860 --> 00:54:19.579
This is what research is all about, is taking that leap,
906
00:54:19.880 --> 00:54:21.199
you know?
907
00:54:21.340 --> 00:54:23.159
No, leap up.
908
00:54:23.360 --> 00:54:27.699
Did you listen to this looking for a song for
909
00:54:27.760 --> 00:54:30.800
this topic, or did you just listen to it for fun?
910
00:54:31.690 --> 00:54:36.260
Well, I wanted to, the story is I wanted to
911
00:54:36.320 --> 00:54:38.519
do No Reply because it's one of my favorite Beatles
912
00:54:38.539 --> 00:54:41.139
songs and it fit the topic. But I knew that
913
00:54:41.179 --> 00:54:43.480
picking a Beatles song is kind of like low-hanging fruit.
914
00:54:43.539 --> 00:54:47.079
So I went to the website whosample.com to see if
915
00:54:47.099 --> 00:54:50.139
I could find a cover of it that would be
916
00:54:50.199 --> 00:54:54.190
cool for the show. And I found some good covers,
917
00:54:54.210 --> 00:54:55.510
but like as soon as I found this one, I
918
00:54:55.530 --> 00:54:56.929
was like, this is it. This is the cover I
919
00:54:56.949 --> 00:54:57.349
have to play.
920
00:54:57.889 --> 00:55:00.289
And yet you went on and listened to the whole album.
921
00:55:00.329 --> 00:55:01.989
But then I listened to the whole album, yes.
922
00:55:02.429 --> 00:55:04.809
Okay, that's what I was trying to think.
923
00:55:04.829 --> 00:55:06.730
That's a professional right there.
924
00:55:07.710 --> 00:55:10.210
So he's got a bunch of downloads off of me.
925
00:55:10.230 --> 00:55:13.980
He must be so excited.
926
00:55:17.539 --> 00:55:18.059
All right.
927
00:55:18.699 --> 00:55:20.690
John, can you rescue us?
928
00:55:22.039 --> 00:55:24.159
I don't know if I'm going to rescue you, Brian,
929
00:55:24.239 --> 00:55:28.320
but I can certainly just give you my take on
930
00:55:28.380 --> 00:55:29.059
everything here.
931
00:55:29.079 --> 00:55:30.119
But this has.
932
00:55:30.039 --> 00:55:32.840
Been quite a night, that's all I can say. All right,
933
00:55:32.880 --> 00:55:37.380
my choice tonight was The Boys' Night Out. Now, we're
934
00:55:37.400 --> 00:55:41.820
talking about the Frank Sinatra version of the song, but
935
00:55:41.989 --> 00:55:44.530
it was originally a bit of a lighthearted 1962 song
936
00:55:44.550 --> 00:55:52.219
written by Jimmy Van Heusen, And Sammy Khan about men
937
00:55:52.300 --> 00:55:57.480
going out onto the town for a night of romance
938
00:55:57.619 --> 00:55:58.139
and fun.
939
00:55:58.539 --> 00:56:01.010
And you know there's going to be cheating involved.
940
00:56:01.449 --> 00:56:02.489
Exactly.
941
00:56:02.849 --> 00:56:05.010
But let me tell you, folks, there is a twist
942
00:56:05.150 --> 00:56:07.170
to this that I am not going to mention right now.
943
00:56:07.230 --> 00:56:09.469
We're going to wait until after the song. But yeah,
944
00:56:09.510 --> 00:56:12.019
that's about it. A bunch of guys going out on
945
00:56:12.039 --> 00:56:14.699
the town. Now, when you think about Frank Sinatra going
946
00:56:14.760 --> 00:56:16.900
out on a night on the town, nobody thinks of
947
00:56:17.099 --> 00:56:20.920
cheating or carousing, I'm sure, as I say with tongue
948
00:56:20.960 --> 00:56:21.400
in cheek.
949
00:56:21.559 --> 00:56:25.820
What, the Rat Pack? No. Nah.
950
00:56:26.239 --> 00:56:29.139
Well, you would think he originally created this, but no,
951
00:56:29.199 --> 00:56:32.159
he did not. Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Khan did.
952
00:56:33.320 --> 00:56:36.340
The songs, meaning, of course, as we all have been discussing,
953
00:56:37.219 --> 00:56:41.739
It implies about people going out on the prowl, and
954
00:56:41.760 --> 00:56:44.090
there's a lot of lyrics about building a fence around
955
00:56:44.130 --> 00:56:46.170
your daughter to protect her from these.
956
00:56:46.789 --> 00:56:47.449
Yikes.
957
00:56:47.530 --> 00:56:50.630
Yes, these kind of lecherous fools, because they're all heading
958
00:56:50.690 --> 00:56:54.010
out and about. The song compares impending chaos of the
959
00:56:54.070 --> 00:56:58.289
night with historical disasters, such as the night they lost
960
00:56:58.329 --> 00:57:01.389
the Titanic and the Wall Street panic. So you'll hear
961
00:57:01.469 --> 00:57:04.809
some of these themes in the song. But it was
962
00:57:04.909 --> 00:57:09.190
originally written as a title track for a 1962 comedy film,
963
00:57:09.530 --> 00:57:14.190
Boys Night Out, starring James Garner and Kim Novak. And
964
00:57:14.230 --> 00:57:17.349
the song was famously recorded and performed in the movie
965
00:57:17.429 --> 00:57:22.130
by Patti Page, not Frank Sinatra. So what we're going
966
00:57:22.150 --> 00:57:27.030
to hear now is the Sinatra version and what he
967
00:57:27.070 --> 00:57:28.889
did with the song. So why don't we play the
968
00:57:28.929 --> 00:57:31.300
song and I could talk a little bit about the
969
00:57:31.409 --> 00:57:32.860
twist when we're done.
970
00:57:50.619 --> 00:57:54.400
Hey there, mister, build a fence around your sister, it's the.
971
00:57:55.309 --> 00:58:00.019
The boys night out. Hey, they're buster.
972
00:58:00.119 --> 00:58:02.639
It's the engines after Custer.
973
00:58:02.719 --> 00:58:04.980
It's the boys night out.
974
00:58:07.239 --> 00:58:09.159
They're out to do the town.
975
00:58:09.280 --> 00:58:16.050
And before they're through, it's bound to be like in two.
976
00:58:17.579 --> 00:58:22.019
The night they lost the Titanic and the Wall Street
977
00:58:22.059 --> 00:58:27.260
to panic What they're seeking is a little cheek to cheeking.
978
00:58:26.800 --> 00:58:29.519
It's the boys' night out.
979
00:58:31.570 --> 00:58:39.329
And that moon's about as big as a honeydew It's
980
00:58:39.389 --> 00:58:45.820
the boys' night out and they're so romantic I'll give you.
981
00:58:45.659 --> 00:58:50.619
A clue what the boys are out after, the girls
982
00:58:50.719 --> 00:58:51.960
are out after too.
983
00:59:14.000 --> 00:59:17.420
They're out to do the town and before they're through
984
00:59:19.920 --> 00:59:23.159
It's bound to be like in two.
985
00:59:24.030 --> 00:59:28.710
The night they lost the Titanic and the Wall Street to.
986
00:59:28.670 --> 00:59:33.150
Panic What they're seeking is a little cheek to cheeking
987
00:59:33.230 --> 00:59:34.670
It's the.
988
00:59:34.610 --> 00:59:36.000
Boys' night out.
989
00:59:38.239 --> 00:59:45.690
And that moon's about as big as a honeydew It's
990
00:59:45.750 --> 00:59:50.989
the boys' night out and they're so romantic But I
991
00:59:51.050 --> 00:59:53.099
will give you a clue.
992
00:59:53.920 --> 00:59:56.380
What the boys are out after The.
993
00:59:58.800 --> 01:00:01.179
Girls are out after.
994
01:00:00.659 --> 01:00:06.170
What the boys are out after The girls are out
995
01:00:06.389 --> 01:00:06.989
after too.
996
01:00:13.269 --> 01:00:14.809
Okay, everybody.
997
01:00:14.929 --> 01:00:17.409
So for all of those listening to the lyrics, did
998
01:00:17.449 --> 01:00:18.309
you get the twist?
999
01:00:19.929 --> 01:00:20.250
I did.
1000
01:00:20.289 --> 01:00:23.090
I got the twist and I got the gist.
1001
01:00:23.789 --> 01:00:26.989
Everybody is, you know, the boys were out on the prowl, but,
1002
01:00:27.030 --> 01:00:30.289
you know, so were the ladies at these nightclubs and
1003
01:00:30.329 --> 01:00:31.159
bars and everything.
1004
01:00:31.239 --> 01:00:33.380
Except for the sister that was stuck inside the fence.
1005
01:00:33.860 --> 01:00:35.860
Yeah, except for the sister. Exactly.
1006
01:00:36.420 --> 01:00:39.880
You know, they say it takes two to tango. That's true.
1007
01:00:40.449 --> 01:00:41.840
There you go. Yeah.
1008
01:00:41.900 --> 01:00:42.679
So, so yeah.
1009
01:00:42.719 --> 01:00:45.039
So the boys night out, you know, a bunch of lecherous,
1010
01:00:45.219 --> 01:00:47.139
you know, a bunch of lecherous guys out there, but
1011
01:00:48.019 --> 01:00:49.760
the girls were out there too, was the whole point
1012
01:00:49.780 --> 01:00:52.039
of the song, I guess. So I'm not taking sides.
1013
01:00:52.099 --> 01:00:53.320
I'm just pointing out the little.
1014
01:00:53.179 --> 01:00:55.110
Twist at the end. And you know what the girl said?
1015
01:00:56.090 --> 01:00:57.710
Come a little bit closer.
1016
01:00:57.909 --> 01:00:58.190
Huh?
1017
01:00:58.369 --> 01:00:59.010
Yeah.
1018
01:01:00.030 --> 01:01:03.130
But there's, but there is a second twist that I
1019
01:01:03.170 --> 01:01:08.050
didn't mention that I want to mention. When Frank recorded this, um,
1020
01:01:09.210 --> 01:01:15.550
It was actually shelved in the MGM reprise vaults and
1021
01:01:15.610 --> 01:01:20.000
remained unreleased for decades until it finally appeared on the
1022
01:01:20.000 --> 01:01:25.780
1995 box set, the Complete Reprise Studio
Recordings. So it
1023
01:01:25.820 --> 01:01:31.280
was originally recorded in 62 by Patti Page, and shortly
1024
01:01:31.320 --> 01:01:36.349
thereafter it was recorded by Sinatra, but not released until 1995.
1025
01:01:37.260 --> 01:01:40.590
So the song, so the rendition we just heard sat
1026
01:01:40.630 --> 01:01:43.130
on the shelves for decades for some reason. I'm not really,
1027
01:01:43.190 --> 01:01:44.070
I tried to find why.
1028
01:01:44.090 --> 01:01:46.369
It's cool that it was saved and not recorded over.
1029
01:01:46.670 --> 01:01:49.190
Tape was expensive. You know, a lot of, I can't
1030
01:01:49.210 --> 01:01:52.469
imagine what we've lost over history just because tape was reused.
1031
01:01:53.070 --> 01:01:55.690
Yeah, I could just imagine somebody screwing that up and
1032
01:01:55.710 --> 01:01:57.719
just doing that with this song. Because, I mean, this,
1033
01:01:58.079 --> 01:02:00.820
I mean, it was classic Sinatra. I mean, does he
1034
01:02:00.860 --> 01:02:03.139
do a wonderful take on the song? Of course he does.
1035
01:02:03.659 --> 01:02:06.460
You know, when I was talking during the song before, too,
1036
01:02:06.820 --> 01:02:10.420
the horn actually kind of reminded me a little bit of, like,
1037
01:02:10.500 --> 01:02:14.000
James Bond theme from the 60s, you know? And who
1038
01:02:14.039 --> 01:02:16.289
was also... a bit of a letch.
1039
01:02:16.369 --> 01:02:18.679
Let's, let's, let's be realistic here.
1040
01:02:21.929 --> 01:02:25.380
You know, so, um, but I, I find it fascinating
1041
01:02:25.420 --> 01:02:28.420
that it just sat on a shelf for decades and somebody,
1042
01:02:28.480 --> 01:02:31.360
I guess that MGM decided in 95, you know, this
1043
01:02:31.440 --> 01:02:31.780
is good.
1044
01:02:31.820 --> 01:02:32.650
Let's release it.
1045
01:02:34.159 --> 01:02:37.780
So, uh, that was my take on tonight and, uh,
1046
01:02:37.920 --> 01:02:40.079
let's see what Brian has in store for us.
1047
01:02:40.300 --> 01:02:42.280
I like that big band kind of thing. I think I'm,
1048
01:02:43.429 --> 01:02:45.789
One of the only crambones who kind of enjoys it.
1049
01:02:45.849 --> 01:02:47.449
And that stuff is fun to play. I like it.
1050
01:02:47.929 --> 01:02:49.659
It's fun to play when you're in a group doing
1051
01:02:49.699 --> 01:02:51.000
that kind of thing. Yep.
1052
01:02:51.699 --> 01:02:53.019
I love Frank Sinatra.
1053
01:02:53.139 --> 01:02:53.360
Yeah.
1054
01:02:53.380 --> 01:02:54.820
I just like that style.
1055
01:02:54.940 --> 01:02:57.900
I have old photos of my parents out on dates with,
1056
01:02:58.000 --> 01:03:01.440
you know, the cool clothes and everything that they wore
1057
01:03:01.960 --> 01:03:05.059
back when they were cool. And I just love music
1058
01:03:05.099 --> 01:03:07.389
like this because it makes, it gives me a visual
1059
01:03:07.429 --> 01:03:08.610
of my parents dating.
1060
01:03:08.869 --> 01:03:11.210
Did your dad wear those jackets
with the skinny ties
1061
01:03:11.250 --> 01:03:11.789
and everything?
1062
01:03:12.570 --> 01:03:13.090
Oh, yeah.
1063
01:03:13.150 --> 01:03:15.590
And then when they went out of style in the 70s,
1064
01:03:15.630 --> 01:03:17.530
my mother yelled at him for wearing them still.
1065
01:03:17.550 --> 01:03:24.139
Yeah, but they come back. Everything comes back. Skinny tie stuff.
1066
01:03:24.179 --> 01:03:26.820
Just keep wearing it. It's going to be coming back
1067
01:03:26.860 --> 01:03:29.539
at some point. There you go. Except like the fedoras.
1068
01:03:29.579 --> 01:03:31.320
They haven't come back as much as you would think.
1069
01:03:32.960 --> 01:03:33.909
We should make that happen.
1070
01:03:35.090 --> 01:03:35.590
Mm-hmm.
1071
01:03:35.949 --> 01:03:37.530
Start the Cranbone line of fedoras.
1072
01:03:38.610 --> 01:03:40.250
I've got one tucked away somewhere.
1073
01:03:40.769 --> 01:03:40.989
Yeah.
1074
01:03:42.099 --> 01:03:44.079
But I wear many hats, as you know.
1075
01:03:45.599 --> 01:03:46.539
Yes, you do, Neil.
1076
01:03:46.719 --> 01:03:51.929
Yes, you do. Yeah, my mom was a big Sinatra fan,
1077
01:03:51.949 --> 01:03:54.409
you know, when she was a teenager and whatnot. So
1078
01:03:54.429 --> 01:04:02.039
the very early days, you know, like in the 40s. So, yeah,
1079
01:04:02.159 --> 01:04:07.050
and then they grew up, had children like me. and
1080
01:04:07.139 --> 01:04:09.699
all the music I listened to, which basically said the
1081
01:04:09.760 --> 01:04:13.699
same topic, the same sentiment, and they hated it. They
1082
01:04:13.760 --> 01:04:17.199
called it rock and roll. It was the devil's music.
1083
01:04:17.360 --> 01:04:19.860
It was the same stuff with a different tone to it.
1084
01:04:19.929 --> 01:04:20.369
That's all.
1085
01:04:20.889 --> 01:04:24.510
My dad complained, it's loud and it's fast. No, he
1086
01:04:24.550 --> 01:04:26.210
didn't like it.
1087
01:04:26.650 --> 01:04:30.230
It's funny for the most part. My mother was okay
1088
01:04:30.269 --> 01:04:31.210
with rock and roll.
1089
01:04:31.230 --> 01:04:33.519
My mother was okay with it. My dad was not.
1090
01:04:33.599 --> 01:04:35.179
Yeah, no, my dad was not.
1091
01:04:36.570 --> 01:04:38.110
And when you think about it, rock and roll, where
1092
01:04:38.130 --> 01:04:40.349
did its origins come from? It came from all of that.
1093
01:04:40.550 --> 01:04:41.090
Yeah.
1094
01:04:41.369 --> 01:04:43.489
You know, as well as the, let's go all the
1095
01:04:43.530 --> 01:04:46.590
way back decades and decades. It came from classical. It
1096
01:04:46.650 --> 01:04:51.309
really is a collection of different genres that were just
1097
01:04:51.329 --> 01:04:53.670
kind of mashed together to create this new one, at
1098
01:04:53.690 --> 01:04:55.010
least that's the way I see it.
1099
01:04:55.010 --> 01:05:00.260
Yeah, that's exactly what it is. Slightly less polished sometimes. Yes,
1100
01:05:00.320 --> 01:05:04.420
I would
agree. I would agree. Unpolished. Yeah.
1101
01:05:06.260 --> 01:05:09.019
If it's too polished, get back to the drawing board.
1102
01:05:09.059 --> 01:05:10.070
There you go.
1103
01:05:10.139 --> 01:05:10.829
Very good, Neil.
1104
01:05:12.090 --> 01:05:16.210
All right. One more to go. My song is titled
1105
01:05:16.449 --> 01:05:22.429
Hit Em Up Style, Stupid Unnecessary Open Parentheses, Oops! Exclamation Point,
1106
01:05:22.630 --> 01:05:27.639
Stupid Unnecessary Closed Parentheses by Blue Cantrell. I hate parentheses
1107
01:05:27.699 --> 01:05:28.139
in titles.
1108
01:05:28.590 --> 01:05:31.690
That's a long title. How did that fit on the.
1109
01:05:32.090 --> 01:05:33.190
Yeah, really?
1110
01:05:34.110 --> 01:05:36.449
You wrote the song. You can't decide whether to put
1111
01:05:36.510 --> 01:05:38.750
words into the title or not. You're leaving it to
1112
01:05:38.769 --> 01:05:42.360
the audience to decide? I don't think so. No parentheses
1113
01:05:42.380 --> 01:05:45.880
in titles. There you go. All right. So this song
1114
01:05:45.940 --> 01:05:49.699
peaked at number two in July 2001, so it's almost
1115
01:05:49.760 --> 01:05:53.920
an oldie because we're old. It's getting there.
1116
01:05:54.719 --> 01:05:55.099
Almost.
1117
01:05:55.260 --> 01:05:55.519
Almost.
1118
01:05:55.559 --> 01:05:58.739
Yeah, but it's still from this century. It is.
1119
01:05:58.780 --> 01:06:03.579
Generally, it's accepted 30 years-ish, unless there's like a major
1120
01:06:03.599 --> 01:06:06.619
style change. So it's coming. Give it five years, and
1121
01:06:06.650 --> 01:06:07.829
then this will be an oldie.
1122
01:06:08.289 --> 01:06:13.949
Oh, I'm an oldie times like two and change. Uh-oh.
1123
01:06:14.070 --> 01:06:14.510
Uh-oh.
1124
01:06:15.070 --> 01:06:15.469
Oh, boy.
1125
01:06:16.550 --> 01:06:19.989
So our song tonight was written by a songwriter named
1126
01:06:20.269 --> 01:06:23.909
Dallas Austin, who is from, anybody want to guess?
1127
01:06:23.929 --> 01:06:24.010
Yeah.
1128
01:06:25.570 --> 01:06:26.610
Minnesota.
1129
01:06:26.650 --> 01:06:27.570
Suburban.
1130
01:06:27.849 --> 01:06:28.650
Hawaii.
1131
01:06:29.309 --> 01:06:30.369
Czechoslovakia.
1132
01:06:31.369 --> 01:06:32.110
Chicago.
1133
01:06:32.929 --> 01:06:37.320
Georgia. That was my next guess.
1134
01:06:37.380 --> 01:06:37.679
Yep.
1135
01:06:38.440 --> 01:06:41.119
He is now 55 years old. As a kid, Dallas
1136
01:06:41.400 --> 01:06:45.110
begged his mom for a keyboard, and she finally relented.
1137
01:06:45.269 --> 01:06:46.929
He enjoyed it so much that he took it to
1138
01:06:46.989 --> 01:06:49.579
school every day with him through high school. To the
1139
01:06:49.619 --> 01:06:52.219
point where his parents thought it was a problem. And
1140
01:06:52.579 --> 01:06:54.619
the school counselor said, you know what? If he's really
1141
01:06:54.699 --> 01:06:57.079
into this, this might not be a bad thing.
1142
01:06:57.159 --> 01:06:58.579
Be
like a keyboard?
1143
01:06:58.679 --> 01:06:59.159
Keyboard.
1144
01:06:59.889 --> 01:07:00.659
Like a big old.
1145
01:07:00.699 --> 01:07:00.949
Yes.
1146
01:07:01.170 --> 01:07:03.690
Actually, you know, there's so many details I was going
1147
01:07:03.710 --> 01:07:06.030
to gloss over. He made an agreement with his... His
1148
01:07:06.070 --> 01:07:09.269
parents owned a nightclub. So he would DJ as a
1149
01:07:09.309 --> 01:07:11.409
kid every once in a while, play some instruments. And
1150
01:07:11.449 --> 01:07:14.429
he really wanted a keyboard. And his mom said, no,
1151
01:07:14.449 --> 01:07:16.030
we're not wasting the money. You're not going to stick
1152
01:07:16.070 --> 01:07:18.260
with it. And they made an agreement. He would start
1153
01:07:18.300 --> 01:07:21.139
with a small one. And as he progressed, she would
1154
01:07:21.179 --> 01:07:23.880
buy better ones. So they would trade in and trade up. So, yes,
1155
01:07:23.920 --> 01:07:26.159
by the time he was going to school with that,
1156
01:07:26.280 --> 01:07:28.800
it was keyboard. Okay.
1157
01:07:29.000 --> 01:07:34.159
Yeah. So he had parents that actually supported him being
1158
01:07:34.199 --> 01:07:34.800
a musician.
1159
01:07:35.480 --> 01:07:38.460
Sort of reluctantly, but, yeah, ultimately they did.
1160
01:07:38.900 --> 01:07:40.079
But he didn't play rock and roll.
1161
01:07:41.119 --> 01:07:42.500
Well, stand by. Okay.
1162
01:07:42.539 --> 01:07:42.659
Okay.
1163
01:07:47.000 --> 01:07:48.559
I can stand corrected.
1164
01:07:49.039 --> 01:07:52.420
So as I mentioned, his parents owned a nightclub. That's
1165
01:07:52.480 --> 01:07:55.579
where he got in front of audiences at first. A
1166
01:07:55.639 --> 01:07:58.619
domestic incident with one of his two brothers actually led
1167
01:07:58.679 --> 01:08:02.010
him to move out of Columbus, Georgia. His brother threw
1168
01:08:02.050 --> 01:08:07.070
his keyboard, which did not go over well.
1169
01:08:07.090 --> 01:08:07.670
It's bad idea.
1170
01:08:07.949 --> 01:08:10.349
It's time for me to leave Columbus, Georgia. So he
1171
01:08:10.409 --> 01:08:13.480
moved to Atlanta to pursue a music career. He worked
1172
01:08:13.519 --> 01:08:15.980
his way into a career with Motown. He worked with
1173
01:08:16.060 --> 01:08:19.449
Boyz II Men. Later on, he worked with Madonna. He
1174
01:08:19.489 --> 01:08:23.210
worked with TLC, Pink, and Gwen Stefani, amongst others. So
1175
01:08:23.350 --> 01:08:25.930
he did all right from training up his little keyboard.
1176
01:08:26.369 --> 01:08:30.569
Did he ever bother to thank his sibling for actually,
1177
01:08:30.609 --> 01:08:30.880
you know?
1178
01:08:31.720 --> 01:08:32.319
I don't know.
1179
01:08:32.880 --> 01:08:37.699
You know what? Yeah, because if he hadn't thrown him
1180
01:08:37.720 --> 01:08:39.239
out of the house, he'd still be in.
1181
01:08:39.800 --> 01:08:41.899
If he hadn't thrown the keyboard and made him leave
1182
01:08:41.979 --> 01:08:42.359
the house.
1183
01:08:42.380 --> 01:08:43.689
Yeah. That's what I'm saying.
1184
01:08:43.859 --> 01:08:45.529
That was the kick in the pants he needed.
1185
01:08:45.609 --> 01:08:45.850
Yeah.
1186
01:08:45.890 --> 01:08:46.090
Yep.
1187
01:08:46.779 --> 01:08:48.640
We all need one. I'm overdue.
1188
01:08:48.640 --> 01:08:51.760
We can take care of that.
1189
01:08:51.760 --> 01:08:55.529
We'll just hold that thought.
1190
01:08:55.529 --> 01:08:57.109
All right, fair enough.
1191
01:08:57.170 --> 01:09:00.439
I'm assuming the position, so go ahead. That's your best shot.
1192
01:09:01.100 --> 01:09:01.529
Go for it.
1193
01:09:02.079 --> 01:09:05.279
So Hit Em Up Style was sung by Blue Cantrell,
1194
01:09:06.039 --> 01:09:10.079
who was born Tiffany Cobb in 1976. She's from Providence,
1195
01:09:10.119 --> 01:09:13.560
Rhode Island. In the 1990s, she was a backup singer
1196
01:09:13.619 --> 01:09:16.180
for a number of R & B groups, and she
1197
01:09:16.220 --> 01:09:19.949
became friends with Usher. Usher introduced her to the right people.
1198
01:09:20.350 --> 01:09:22.850
She wound up getting signed to Arista Records and her
1199
01:09:22.909 --> 01:09:27.710
debut album, So Blue, dropped in 2001. It had great success,
1200
01:09:27.789 --> 01:09:32.010
positive reviews, and this hit-em-up style was the premiere single
1201
01:09:32.270 --> 01:09:35.420
and is still her biggest hit to date. Her second
1202
01:09:35.520 --> 01:09:38.399
album was a critical success but didn't do as well.
1203
01:09:39.399 --> 01:09:44.039
In 2004, her contract with Arista expired and was not renewed.
1204
01:09:44.859 --> 01:09:47.880
Maybe on purpose, maybe not. Hold that thought for a second.
1205
01:09:49.010 --> 01:09:51.050
She then learned that she was not paid as much
1206
01:09:51.090 --> 01:09:53.130
as she should have been during those few years of
1207
01:09:53.189 --> 01:09:56.569
her massive success. Have we heard that story before?
1208
01:09:56.609 --> 01:09:58.800
What a shock.
1209
01:09:59.119 --> 01:10:02.500
Behind the scenes, just before this big success, she was
1210
01:10:02.560 --> 01:10:07.760
linked to Jay-Z, who you've all heard of. Blue and
1211
01:10:07.899 --> 01:10:12.350
Beyonce were both rising at the same time and Jay-Z
1212
01:10:12.590 --> 01:10:18.979
wound up marrying Beyonce. There's the conspiracy theory that Beyonce
1213
01:10:19.100 --> 01:10:24.409
pushed Blue out of the spotlight because she had Jay-Z. Now,
1214
01:10:24.529 --> 01:10:27.770
Jay-Z and Beyonce had a daughter. Anybody know the daughter's name?
1215
01:10:28.470 --> 01:10:28.850
Blue.
1216
01:10:29.250 --> 01:10:31.369
Blue Ivy. Coincidence?
1217
01:10:32.329 --> 01:10:33.270
I think not.
1218
01:10:33.350 --> 01:10:38.909
Probably not. Something nefarious going on? Maybe, maybe not. I
1219
01:10:38.970 --> 01:10:39.430
don't know.
1220
01:10:39.510 --> 01:10:41.069
Not in the music business, no.
1221
01:10:41.090
--> 01:10:42.829
I don't know. I don't know.
1222
01:10:42.949 --> 01:10:43.689
That would be a first.
1223
01:10:43.710 --> 01:10:43.829
Yeah.
1224
01:10:46.640 --> 01:10:48.460
It was at that point that Bluth said that she
1225
01:10:48.500 --> 01:10:50.659
just had to walk away from fame and take some
1226
01:10:50.699 --> 01:10:53.340
time off. She moved to London for a while. She
1227
01:10:53.399 --> 01:10:58.149
performed overseas. And a third album has been pending now
1228
01:10:58.229 --> 01:11:00.909
for 13 years. I don't know if that's ever going
1229
01:11:00.930 --> 01:11:05.510
to come out or not. Unfortunately, in September 2014, she
1230
01:11:05.550 --> 01:11:08.989
was taken into custody in Santa Monica, California, under mental
1231
01:11:09.029 --> 01:11:13.289
health concerns. Witnesses reported that around 2 a.m. she, quote,
1232
01:11:13.479 --> 01:11:16.840
went berserk. and started running around the streets yelling that
1233
01:11:16.920 --> 01:11:20.359
someone had poisoned her with gas, and she kept calling
1234
01:11:20.399 --> 01:11:23.779
herself a one-hit wonder. When the police showed up, she
1235
01:11:23.819 --> 01:11:27.859
kept asking the officers if they recognized her, which maybe
1236
01:11:27.880 --> 01:11:30.840
they did, maybe they didn't, probably not. She wound up
1237
01:11:30.880 --> 01:11:35.119
getting evaluated and released, and she's okay, fortunately. We all
1238
01:11:35.159 --> 01:11:37.979
have our bad days, and unfortunately when you're famous, your
1239
01:11:38.000 --> 01:11:39.840
bad days make the headlines.
1240
01:11:40.340 --> 01:11:40.760
Oh, yeah.
1241
01:11:40.960 --> 01:11:43.310
And, you know, I think that's a little bit unfair.
1242
01:11:44.699 --> 01:11:46.500
You can, but I was trying to find what she's
1243
01:11:46.560 --> 01:11:49.029
up to now. You can book her through her talent agency,
1244
01:11:49.090 --> 01:11:51.510
but I couldn't find any tour dates or anything, so
1245
01:11:51.550 --> 01:11:53.949
I don't know what she's up to now. She is
1246
01:11:54.010 --> 01:11:58.310
reported to do occasional one-off gigs. The last performance I
1247
01:11:58.329 --> 01:12:01.539
found was in 2020, right before COVID. She was doing
1248
01:12:01.579 --> 01:12:04.359
a package tour of R & B singers around London
1249
01:12:04.800 --> 01:12:08.159
in England, and she sounded great. There's YouTube on that.
1250
01:12:08.539 --> 01:12:11.149
There's videos up, so she kept her voice, so good
1251
01:12:11.189 --> 01:12:15.409
for her. So the song itself is a suggestion that
1252
01:12:15.550 --> 01:12:18.729
women should get revenge on their cheating guys by draining
1253
01:12:18.770 --> 01:12:22.560
their bank accounts and relieving them of their assets, which
1254
01:12:22.600 --> 01:12:24.260
I think is a very nice way of putting it.
1255
01:12:25.960 --> 01:12:29.640
Go shopping with friends, run up to credit cards, take
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01:12:29.659 --> 01:12:32.930
the car, all that kind of stuff. You get where
1257
01:12:32.949 --> 01:12:36.090
the song is going. This song happens to use a
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01:12:36.130 --> 01:12:39.189
sample from the middle of John's pick, Frank Sinatra's version
1259
01:12:39.229 --> 01:12:41.979
of Boy's Night Out. In the beginning and then again
1260
01:12:42.020 --> 01:12:44.020
in the middle of the song. It's actually a sample
1261
01:12:44.060 --> 01:12:46.520
that's kind of buried in the mix, but it's there.
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01:12:46.560 --> 01:12:48.399
If you listen for that big band kind of sound,
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01:12:48.859 --> 01:12:49.310
you'll hear that.
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01:12:49.329 --> 01:12:50.210
Was that intentional?
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01:12:50.409 --> 01:12:51.130
It was intentional.
1266
01:12:51.390 --> 01:12:51.609
Yep.
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01:12:51.890 --> 01:12:52.250
Oh, okay.
1268
01:12:53.250 --> 01:12:57.069
Yep. And of course, John Song points out that boys
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01:12:57.109 --> 01:12:59.250
might be misbehaving, but the girls are out looking for
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01:12:59.289 --> 01:13:03.640
the same thing. So, you know, hold the mirror. I
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01:13:03.680 --> 01:13:06.819
love the first line of the song. While he was scheming,
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01:13:07.119 --> 01:13:10.689
I was beaming in the beamer, just beaming. And then
1273
01:13:10.720 --> 01:13:14.729
it just goes from there. So let's check out Blue
1274
01:13:14.770 --> 01:13:16.350
Cantrell's Hit Em Up style.
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01:13:21.899 --> 01:13:24.739
While he was steaming, I was steaming in the Beamer,
1276
01:13:24.760 --> 01:13:25.680
just steaming.
1277
01:13:26.060 --> 01:13:28.359
Can't believe that I caught my man cheating.
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01:13:28.699 --> 01:13:31.539
So I found another way to make him pay for
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01:13:31.619 --> 01:13:35.010
it all. So I went to Neiman Marcus on a
1280
01:13:35.050 --> 01:13:39.029
shopping spree. And on the way, I grabbed Soleil and Mia.
1281
01:13:39.270 --> 01:13:41.050
And as the cash box rang, I.
1282
01:13:41.029 --> 01:13:43.409
Thought everything away.
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01:13:44.390 --> 01:13:47.529
There goes the dreams we used to say. There goes
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01:13:47.569 --> 01:13:49.350
the times we spent away.
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01:13:49.750 --> 01:13:51.930
There goes the love I had. Bye.
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01:13:51.949 --> 01:13:52.029
Bye.
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01:14:16.699 --> 01:14:20.229
When you go, then everything goes from the crib to
1288
01:14:20.239 --> 01:14:21.729
the ride in the clothes.
1289
01:14:22.050 --> 01:14:24.630
So you better let him know that if he mess up,
1290
01:14:24.729 --> 01:14:32.920
you gotta hit him up. While he was bragging, I
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01:14:32.939 --> 01:14:35.600
was coming down the hill of just a dragon. All
1292
01:14:35.619 --> 01:14:38.920
his pictures and his clothes in the bagging. Sold everything
1293
01:14:39.140 --> 01:14:43.109
else till there was just nothing left. And I paid
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01:14:43.430 --> 01:14:46.350
all the bills about a month too late. It's a
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01:14:46.390 --> 01:14:48.050
shame we have to play these games.
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01:14:48.109 --> 01:14:49.770
The love we.
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01:14:49.670 --> 01:14:52.399
Had just fade away, away.
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01:14:53.739 --> 01:14:55.279
There goes the dreams we.
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01:14:55.239 --> 01:14:56.020
Used to say.
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01:14:56.399 --> 01:14:58.619
There goes the times we spent away.
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01:14:59.079 --> 01:15:02.439
There goes the love I had, but you cheated on me.
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01:15:02.180 --> 01:15:03.819
And that's for that now.
1303
01:15:04.399 --> 01:15:06.579
There goes the house we made a home.
1304
01:15:07.079 --> 01:15:09.239
There goes you'll never leave me alone.
1305
01:15:09.750 --> 01:15:11.670
For all the lies you told.
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01:15:11.729 --> 01:15:16.890
This is what you are. Ladies, when you're going to
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01:15:17.050 --> 01:15:18.970
get yourself wild, just go back and.
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01:15:18.930 --> 01:15:22.029
Hit them up style. Put your hands on the cash
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01:15:22.149 --> 01:15:24.329
and spend until the last dime for all.
1310
01:15:24.189 --> 01:15:25.109
The hard times.
1311
01:15:25.770 --> 01:15:29.350
Oh, when you're going, everything goes from the crib.
1312
01:15:29.069 --> 01:15:30.710
To the ride and the tolls.
1313
01:15:30.729 --> 01:15:33.840
So you better let them know that if you mess up,
1314
01:15:33.949 --> 01:15:35.050
you gotta hit them up.
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01:15:35.090 --> 01:15:36.270
Hey, ladies.
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01:15:36.789 --> 01:15:37.170
Ladies.
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01:15:37.430 --> 01:15:40.180
We'll be right back.
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01:15:50.079 --> 01:15:50.739
The flip to the.
1319
01:15:50.819 --> 01:15:53.939
Right and the close. So you better let him know
1320
01:15:54.060 --> 01:15:57.609
that if you mess up, you gotta hit him up.
1321
01:15:57.970 --> 01:15:59.449
All of the dreams.
1322
01:15:59.050 --> 01:16:01.229
You sold left me.
1323
01:16:01.149 --> 01:16:04.350
Out in the cold. What happened to the days when
1324
01:16:04.470 --> 01:16:08.210
we used to trust each other?
1325
01:16:08.289 --> 01:16:11.500
And all of the things I sold will.
1326
01:16:11.199 --> 01:16:14.300
Take you until you get old to get them back
1327
01:16:14.399 --> 01:16:15.260
without me.
1328
01:16:15.420 --> 01:16:17.060
Cause revenge is better.
1329
01:16:16.779 --> 01:16:17.939
Than money, you see.
1330
01:16:22.359 --> 01:16:31.640
Just go back and get them up to style.
1331
01:16:31.699 --> 01:16:36.409
Get them up to style. Oh, yeah.
1332
01:16:36.550 --> 01:16:37.909
Oh, yeah.
1333
01:16:38.229 --> 01:16:39.069
Oh, yeah.
1334
01:16:39.529 --> 01:16:41.449
Oh, yeah.
1335
01:16:58.920 --> 01:17:05.689
I've always thought that song was catchy i like it
1336
01:17:05.890 --> 01:17:08.369
i never heard it before.
1337
01:17:21.109 --> 01:17:23.869
I like the kind of scat thing going on.
1338
01:17:23.890 --> 01:17:24.310
Yeah.
1339
01:17:24.329 --> 01:17:26.439
Like at the end there.
1340
01:17:26.449 --> 01:17:29.899
Yeah, she's got a voice that could be from like
1341
01:17:29.939 --> 01:17:33.359
the 40s or, you know, like a big band era voice.
1342
01:17:33.380 --> 01:17:37.420
She projects. She can project really well. It sounds great. Yeah.
1343
01:17:37.500 --> 01:17:39.220
I can't say I'm a fan of the music that
1344
01:17:39.239 --> 01:17:43.600
she was using, particularly that beatbox or whatever, which drives me.
1345
01:17:43.939 --> 01:17:45.880
Yeah, it drives me nuts too.
1346
01:17:46.039 --> 01:17:48.020
It makes me want to run out and run down
1347
01:17:48.039 --> 01:17:49.300
the street, you know, screaming.
1348
01:17:49.319 --> 01:17:49.390
But.
1349
01:17:50.970 --> 01:17:53.090
Why do I hear my father when you say things
1350
01:17:53.130 --> 01:17:53.770
like that?
1351
01:17:53.789 --> 01:17:58.289
You know, I've reached the age where I could do
1352
01:17:58.350 --> 01:18:01.750
that now. See, it's a generational thing. I've earned the
1353
01:18:01.810 --> 01:18:07.270
right to. And then, no, listen to me. It empowers
1354
01:18:07.310 --> 01:18:10.260
the younger generation. See, the old guy doesn't like it,
1355
01:18:10.310 --> 01:18:13.409
so we're right. You see, the same way we felt about,
1356
01:18:14.189 --> 01:18:17.060
you know, parents, it's horrible rock and roll. We go, see,
1357
01:18:17.260 --> 01:18:17.779
we're right.
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01:18:17.800 --> 01:18:19.119
There you go.
1359
01:18:19.220 --> 01:18:19.640
You get it?
1360
01:18:19.640 --> 01:18:19.720
Yeah.
1361
01:18:19.779 --> 01:18:23.920
Yeah. Whether I think it's true or not, I like
1362
01:18:23.960 --> 01:18:26.939
to make... I want the kids to feel like they've
1363
01:18:26.960 --> 01:18:31.880
got their own identity, and every generation has to. That's
1364
01:18:31.960 --> 01:18:32.439
all I'm saying.
1365
01:18:32.479 --> 01:18:36.979
Which is just what Shep Gordon did for Alice Cooper. He, like,
1366
01:18:37.180 --> 01:18:42.270
reinforced that Alice was, you know, a wild man and dangerous,
1367
01:18:43.449 --> 01:18:48.109
and the kids bought into it, you know? The parents
1368
01:18:48.310 --> 01:18:49.130
didn't like it yet.
1369
01:18:49.210 --> 01:18:49.470
I did.
1370
01:18:51.399 --> 01:18:54.060
Parents didn't like it but the kids were like oh
1371
01:18:54.279 --> 01:18:56.720
mom doesn't like this so.
1372
01:18:56.479 --> 01:19:02.189
Yeah that's exactly what I'm saying.
1373
01:19:01.449 --> 01:19:06.590
Yeah love it alright so there you go I think
1374
01:19:06.630 --> 01:19:12.590
that's a wrap tonight yay Can you guess which Cranbone
1375
01:19:12.609 --> 01:19:13.720
was the crankiest tonight?
1376
01:19:16.180 --> 01:19:18.619
Control your enthusiasm there, Gail. Wow.
1377
01:19:18.920 --> 01:19:19.199
All right.
1378
01:19:20.680 --> 01:19:22.819
I didn't mean it the way it sounds.
1379
01:19:22.859 --> 01:19:25.460
We're going to pull the plug and somebody has to
1380
01:19:25.500 --> 01:19:27.239
volunteer to tuck her in and get her some warm
1381
01:19:27.279 --> 01:19:27.850
milk tonight.
1382
01:19:30.649 --> 01:19:31.130
Wow.
1383
01:19:31.890 --> 01:19:36.729
Oh, I totally, I need a housekeeper and a nanny
1384
01:19:36.750 --> 01:19:37.970
to look after me.
1385
01:19:38.069 --> 01:19:41.609
I just really do. I just need a full-time bartender.
1386
01:19:41.630 --> 01:19:46.720
Fair enough. Yes.
1387
01:19:47.039 --> 01:19:48.640
All right.
1388
01:19:49.680 --> 01:19:55.229
It's definitely time to go. Thank you, Cranbones. Excellent choices. Mercedes,
1389
01:19:55.270 --> 01:19:55.930
good topic.
1390
01:19:55.970 --> 01:19:57.489
Again, I agree.
1391
01:19:57.529 --> 01:20:01.909
I think we can revisit this on occasion. This will work.
1392
01:20:01.949 --> 01:20:03.430
Thank you all for joining us here for the Rock
1393
01:20:03.449 --> 01:20:05.369
and Roll History Show. Don't forget to subscribe with your
1394
01:20:05.390 --> 01:20:07.479
favorite podcast app and check out all the other shows
1395
01:20:07.520 --> 01:20:10.090
we do here at Hudson River Radio. There is something
1396
01:20:10.130 --> 01:20:12.229
for everybody. We will see you next week with another
1397
01:20:12.270 --> 01:20:15.760
brand new episode. Until then, don't cheat. Have a great weekend.
1398
01:20:15.770 --> 01:20:17.460
And peace out, everybody.
1399
01:20:18.220 --> 01:20:19.760
Okay, bye-bye.
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01:20:20.579 --> 01:20:25.619
Woo-hoo.
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